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Manish Mundra produced ‘Masaan’ and ‘Newton’, and in his directorial debut, he displays a similar sensibility. The staging is superb, and the film is exquisitely shot.
Within the first few scenes, Manish Mundra’s Siya lays out the world of its 17-year-old protagonist. (Pooja Pandey plays Siya.) It’s a world without toilets for women. It’s a world where younger brothers go to school while older sisters have to drop out. It’s a world where women are sexually harassed by powerful men, bearing caste names like Thakur. It’s a world where a mother feels her daughter should get married instead of taking up a job. It’s a world that young women want to escape, and that’s what Siya tells the sympathetic Mahendar (Vineet Kumar Singh): she wants to go to Delhi and be with her chachi, her aunt. He tells her she is just a child and Delhi is a big city. But that’s probably why she wants to go there. The smallness of this life is suffocating her.
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